You can now add a per-charge description—a “dynamic descriptor” in the industry jargon—to transactions on your customers’ credit card statements. We still recommend that you include your business name in your per-charge description, but the additional context can help reduce confusion, customer enquiries, and chargebacks.

You can use the description for anything you like: the product purchased, the plan the customer subscribed to, or the name of the seller on a marketplace. To get started, just pass the statement_descriptor parameter when creating a charge: